albinofrenchy

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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
This isn't that conclusive of a test -- uninitialized memory is 0 relatively often.
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
I suspect that is why they posted this here to be honest... currious if it works
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
The point about legacy pointer code is valid, but the benefit of the newer pointer / iterator / ownership stuff isn't really that it is in and of itself a magic bullet. What it does do is make it easy to reason about how poin
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
That is an argument; I just don't think it is a particularly good one. In particular, I think it muddies the water a bit between various forms of things that are taxed as capital gains. That article goes out of its way to paint a pictu
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
> At some point the market won't be attractive enough. We are _nowhere_ near that point. And no one is saying tax capital gains at 100%; but I've never seen a convincing argument that it shouldn't be at _least_ the same as
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
You can have a tax system by applying it to earned, applying it to accumulated, or by doing a little bit of both. Inherited wealth was already taxed at one point too. All money is taxed multiple times as it moves throughout the economy. Tha
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
The argument against income tax is that it penalizes earners, and rewards not working. Sure, that is a reductionist argument but so was yours. The real argument against taxing wealth is that it isn't really feasible; you'd just en
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
> Investigators who examined the random number generator for the Wisconsin random number generator concluded it contained two extra bits of coding that instructed it to produce Tipton’s numbers on just three days of the year. Super unfor
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
If you aren't a threat to lives on american soil, there is no amount of financial crime that will earn you extraordinary rendition. It isn't worth the diplomatic relations, nor the risk of life for the people who would be grabbing
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
I thought you meant giving it relative paths in your CMakeLists.txt -- which does work as expected. > This makes CMake-generated projects almost useless: you cannot source control them or share them in any other way. Yes, and this is a g
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
AFAIK cmake works perfectly fine with relative paths; what breaks?
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
His job required him to participate in a team setting. His speech made that untenable according to his employer. He hasn't been silenced though, if anything his voice carried far further than intended. I'm not sure Google did the
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
I'd argue modern AI is sort of terrible at taking high dimensional data and finding an effective representation of it. It works better than a lot of other methods in ML but as far as I know pure reinforcement learning applications are
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
It is a little absurd to say that this is censorship by the left. Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences, and the manifesto has been widely distributed. What rights were deprived from the author exactly? Did I miss a story w
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
I agree you shouldn't call people bigots for association to a given political party, but lets not white wash the GOP's platform: - Traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman, is the foundation
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
Simply changing to size_t doesn't really fix this bug. You still have to use the low + (high - low) / 2 fix.
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
I very much doubt they would lie about it; but if the amount in question was so little that they wouldn't care about it, they would just pay the full price.
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
> If the democrats wanted single payer and considered it crucial to their agenda, they could have done that. And then watched it get blown away by next congress as soon as the GOP gained 51 seats to do whatever they want. Blowing away th
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
I'm not saying any democrats at the time were willing to go all in on it, but the two statements would only be two ways to frame the same reality if democrats had the ability to make unilateral decisions in the senate. They never did.
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
Not really, they only had a filibuster proof majority for a very short period of time -- http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/did-the-democrats-ever-real... . And that is counting Lieberman as a D; a person who backed McCain for
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
It was dropped because it was politically impossible and it wasn't worth burning political capital on it. Even just the public option wasn't able to gain traction; single payer was never going to happen in 2009.
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by albinofrenchy 9y ago
Retro active datasets are commonly court ordered. Laws aren't retroactive, but all court proceedings are retrospective. Googles 100k assertion here is bullshit. They did a calculation that handing that data over, or even just collating
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by albinofrenchy 10y ago
Intuit and HR block are a bunch of crooks. They have lobbied for a variety of anti-tax payer causes. Namely stuff like: https://psmag.com/h-r-block-and-intuit-are-still-lobbying-to... . There is a really good reason to think
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by albinofrenchy 10y ago
I'm continually shocked at how many people think nuclear reactors are just nuclear bombs one failure from exploding. The nuclear plants in Switzerland are safer and more efficient than coal power plants.
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by albinofrenchy 10y ago
While I think the argument that voters won't understand how winners are chosen for IRV is a bit overstated, I think it'd be completely true with the Schulze method -- its safe to say that the average voter doesn't have a stro
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by albinofrenchy 10y ago
> When buying a house, wouldnt you try to negotiate for seller concessions like paying for repairs? Yes; but you typically do that before you buy the property, we've had texas for a while now. All the talk about trade deficit with M
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by albinofrenchy 10y ago
> why did they allow the president to run up more national debt than all presidents prior...combined This isn't true even on the face of it; it went up from ~10 trillion to ~18 trillion. And aside from that; the national debt explod
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by albinofrenchy 10y ago
500 people over a relatively short period is noteworthy, even if one of those events only had twenty people in it. Also those twenty people likely weren't in a union so I doubt they had service jobs like running the coffee shop.
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by albinofrenchy 10y ago
Why are we assuming the FBI didn't?
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by albinofrenchy 10y ago
Its the Lil Wayne metric -- be good or be good at it. Every politician is presumably some level of corrupt; you might as well prefer the ones smart enough not to leave evidence everywhere.

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